Professional BASE Jumper Has Disappeared After Successfully Landing a Jump After successfully landing a jump last week, a well-known professional BASE jumper has not been seen since, disappearing without a trace. Austin Carey made the jump across the Snake River, at Twin Falls, Idaho on Thursday afternoon, a jump he had made thousands of times before. Related: UPDATE: Utah Man Cited for BASE Jumping in Zion National Park Fined and […] SnowBrains | June 23, 2020 0 Comments
Iceland Unveils Plaque in Memory of First Glacier Lost to Climate Change Okjökull (OK in English) is the first of Iceland’s glaciers to disappear due to climate change and is to be memorialized with a plaque, which will be unveiled next month, writes USA Today. The plaque on the glacier reads: “In the next 200 years, all our glaciers are expected to follow the same path, this monument is to acknowledge that we know […] Weather WeatherBrains | July 24, 2019 0 Comments
UPDATE: 60-Year Old Woman Missing for 4-Days in California Wilderness Found Alive and Well UPDATE: 07/16/19 – 23:00 PT: Sheryl Powell, 60, of Huntington Beach, CA, who was reported missing by her husband Friday afternoon at the Grandview Campsite near Bishop, CA was found alive Monday after four days of intense searching through rough and remote terrain. Her husband, Joe, said his wife and their dog went missing while he was moving their car, and […] SnowBrains | July 16, 2019 1 Comment
The Case of the Vanishing Park Ranger to be Reopened After Almost 40-Years On January 13, 1980, Paul Fugate, a 41-year-old park ranger at Chiricahua National Monument in Arizona, walked out of the visitor center for an afternoon hike and was never seen or heard from again, writes Adventure Journal. Fugate, a bearded and bespectacled man wearing his ranger uniform and badge, headed on a nature trail toward Faraway Ranch, a chunk of […] SnowBrains | July 20, 2018 0 Comments
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